[Info-vax] Use of logical names other than I/O redirection

Marc Van Dyck marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be
Tue Sep 13 03:58:46 EDT 2022


Arne Vajhøj has brought this to us :

> 3) Logical names does not scale well. 50 fine, 100 fine,
>     200 fine but 100000 does not work. Windows registry is
>     a fine example of something that has become so big that
>     it is difficult to find things.
>
Not if you use separate, dedicated logical name tables. Putting
everything in LNM$SYSTEM is of course not good practice, but desiging
applications to use their own table(s), use rights ids to grant access
to them, and connect automatically to the right tables at login time
works perfectly for me. We also use such mechanisms for our development
environment, so that each version of each application gets its own
set of tables.

-- 
Marc Van Dyck



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